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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1908
Page
3
Excerpts from multiple newspapers praise Meredith Nicholson's fiction calling it cheerful rollicking and highly entertaining. Citations from Cincinnati Times-Star The Dial San Francisco Chronicle The Outlook Pittsburgh Gazette Times Chicago Journal Baltimore Sun Baltimore News Omaha Daily News New York Times highlight its amusing lively plot and broad appeal.
Amoros Sisters perform a refined vaudeville act at the Grand, assisted by their athletic routine and a large cast. Claude Gillingwater appears in a comedy playlet with a five-performer company, plus acts from Van Kennedy Rooney Wilson and more, as Forepaugh stocks stage and Kinodrome features. The Three of Us, a Nevada mining district drama, anchors the Forepaugh program with a tale of a young woman defending a family mine against sharpers and winning through.
Willis F. Jackson offers The End of the Trail at Park Theater for three days starting Monday. Cohan and Harris present George M. Cokar’s Forty Five Minutes From Broadway with Scott Welch in the lead, opening Thursday matinee for three nights and matinees. Frances Gordon plays Plain Mary in emotional scenes.
The Fay Foster company at the Empire runs this week with 50 performers including 33 in the chorus. Principals Orletta and Taylor Yule and Simpson the Great Cavana Grace Olia and Herbert and Willing headline. The first part and burlesque promise strong entertainment with added features for this engagement.
Crose promises an entertaining program featuring Nick and Lida Russell in a novelty musical sketch. Comedy piano stunts provide laughs while Josephine Bartlett performs The Panjama Girl and two popular songs. Talk-a-Graph company presents two strong pictorial playsets making the program excellent.
Miss Jennie Wine age 17 daughter of Ledger Wine and W P Marshall age 24 wed in Newport Kentucky after declaring she would only marry if she eloped. Richmond Indiana dispatch notes the romantic stunt as they left for the ceremony.
Taft will tour Indiana with Senator Hemenway and leaders joining. The itinerary lists multiple towns with arrival times for Thursday Friday and Saturday, including Indianapolis, Evansville, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Michigan City and Chicago.
At the Lawrenceville junction seven miles west of Vincennes a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern freight train struck a wagon carrying 20 year old Arihah Williams and 13 year old Virgil M Williams and their parents. Both boys were killed and the parents uninjured. Two women in the wagon suffered concussion with deaths expected soon.
Mrs. Carrie Furnier claims Walter Furnier and George Cravens assaulted the Woodside Public School No. 21 librarian in a harmless prank. She says no injuries occurred and the librarian reported no book trouble. Furnier is described as not leading a gang and recently left work at Tucker & Dorsey to attend school.
At Soutehe Bend Indiana H H Hart of Chicago and George L Zhon of Louisville Ky urged placing children in private homes with compensation for keepers instead of institutions. W H Whittaker of Jeffersonville reformatory pressed wiping out liquor traffic to curb charity evils and Rt O Johnson of Indianapolis spoke on child saving in general.
Albert B. Mead aged 34 was killed while walking on an electric railway track as an interurban car approached. He faced the car and did not attempt to escape. Friends say illness may have led him to end his life. he leaves a family.
Evansville saw a man drown after a fall from the steamer Emma. South Bend will dedicate a Y M C A building donated by the Studebakers next Saturday. Princeton reports Sherman Apple killed by a falling limb while hunting. Richmond church S and J John’s Lutheran was dedicated with Rev Albert Keeger as pastor. Jasper robbed post office of $10 cash and $100 in stamps. Richmond burglars took $500 in goods from Paul Comstock’s home. Greencastle widow Mrs Alexander Martin, 77, died, widow of Depauw University founder.
An overheated stove caused a blaze in Mrs. Luke Delaney s home in Summit. Four children perished: Morris Delaney Joseph Delaney Charles Delaney and Robert Nagle.
A fragment mentions a question about an ancient figure's power and a quirky suggestion to get a bottle of hair restorer. It also references family washings, rough dry by the pound, and an ad style line urging to Try Phones 1671.
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